Currently Having Family From Hawai'i Visit For The Week For My Brothers Graduation. We Were At Dinner

- Captain and Lieutenant

(Photo taken just after the creation of the S.I.A.D.F-0-Z, before Captain "2-Bits" death)

• This photo is of F-O-Z's then Captain Oscar "2-Bit" Watts with Lieutenant Willow "Oswald" Pelekai.

Instant Coffee stash

Early in the morning while waiting for the heli to take them home:

Oswald: *Pours Maxim coffee packets into a mug of hot water*

Gaz: Since when did we bring the coffee machine?

Oswald: Hm? We didn't. Soap left it back at base

Soap: *Sniffing the coffee scent* Since when did we have coffee? Were ye hogging a secret stash from us?

Oswald: No...?

Price: *Overhearing everything* Hold her down

Oswald: WAIT NO-

Soap and Gaz: *Holding Oz down*

Soap: *Reaches into her vest and grabs out a stash of Maxim coffee packets* Ye did have a stash!

Gaz: *Takes a pack* Tsk tsk. How could you, Oz. And from your own team?

Soap: *Sipping from his mug* Aye. We've been coffee starved for a week, Bonnie

Oswald: Bring your own packs next time!

So dumb question time again. I saw where you reblogged the callsign post. But you said y’all just call them nicknames.

When I did the barest do research, I know should’ve looked harder, the only place I really found that used the term callsign were pilots.

(Also I forgot the word pilot and almost just wrote flier but had enough sense to google what are people that fly planes called)

In the COD wikis I’ve read they use the word Alias(es) and not callsign.

Is callsign just a pilot term? Or is it also used throughout the military?

I know I could probably google it more but honestly your lived experiences and even opinions give an interesting perspective on it all.

Sorry your tags got me thinking about where the term that is used so heavily in the fanfic side of the fandom came from and why we use it.

You mean this post?

Ok. Here's where the fandom rage quits my blog:

The term "callsign" is used incorrectly in roughly 99% of military-themed fanfiction.

In the army, a callsign (or call sign) is specifically used in radio communications, not as a moniker or nickname to be used in in-person communications.

More precisely, a callsign is a combination of alpha and numeric characters, like Echo 3-1, Bravo-6, or Watcher-1. Callsigns are also used to ID listening posts, HQs, and permanent telecom installations, such as 620-Kilo in Cold War West Berlin. The radio operator on site would ID as 620-Kilo rather than an individual callsign, and when their shift is over, the next operator ID as 620-Kilo also.

Only field operators use individually designated callsigns, unless the callsign ID the vehicle (like a tank or armored-heavy), which means anyone using the radio for the vehicle ID as the vehicle callsign.

A callword (or call word) is the name of a receiver or station using letters/words but no numbers, like Actual, Cloud Castle, or Whiskey Foxtrot.

U.S. pilots (navy/air force/army air cavalry) are different from most of the military. Pilots get permanent callsigns (not always with numbers) during training and it follows them during their career. To be fair, they spend a lot of time on the radio, so having a permanent callsign makes sense.

The Call of Duty fandom fell in love with using the term callsign because it sounds more "military" to their ears than alias or nickname.

Names like Ghost, Soap, and Gaz are aliases or nicknames. They're not actually callsigns.

In my writing, I avoid using the term callsign because it's usually not the proper word to use in a given scene. To be fair, I have yet to write a pilot fic or one where there's extended training discussion about the proper use of radio-telephone operation in field ops.

My husband was an airborne RATELO (radio-telephone operator) and had a callsign for several years, but no one ever used his callsign unless literally talking over the SINCGARS system with him. I operated a radio for a week and I don't even remember what my callsign was. It was something forgettable from the NATO alphabet* with a number after it.

In the army, in person you're either your last name or your nickname.

SpecOps often call each other by their first names ("what's up, Dave?" LOL), their last name, or a nickname.

CIA & CID use aliases. They call those guys spooks for a reason. You never know who you're actually taking to since they never use their real name.

In the context of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, I still maintain that Alex Keller isn't Echo-1's government name. He's CIA. That was never his name. And he was never here. :)

*The NATO Phonetic Alphabet, for reference:

MASTERLIST

@the-whispers-of-death

Okay, so I tried to draw Stone but idk...

(Also, I was the anonymous ask about his faceclaims a couple days ago, but since this account isn't my main, I kinda didn't wanna put my main account out there. But I digress...I'll prob leave my asks with my account name so yk its me)

Sorry if I didnt do him justice. Let me know if I failed some parts

Workout schedule

Price: We need to discuss your guys workout schedule

Gaz: Wdym? Were all able bodied here

Price: And thats great, but the times you guys go out is driving me insane

Ghost: I hardly cross you guys at the gym, and its great

Price: Thats because you go at 3am. Kyle goes at 10pm, and Soap?

Soap: Yeh?

Price: He doesn't even have a set time

Soap: I go when the wind tells me

Gaz staring at Ghost: 3am?!

Ghost: Its empty and I get to play my music as loud as I want

Soap: Really? Maybe I should start heading out with ye then Ghost

Gaz: Yeh, sounds amazing. No people, only my music? No wonder you go so early

Soap talking with Gaz already making plans: Wake at 0200 so we can leave with Ghost

Gaz: Sounds like a plan

Ghost: No wait-

Price sighing and lighting a cigarette in defeat: This wasn't how this was supposed to go...

A trip to Hawai'i P.7

[Hawaiian Reggae]

Oswald: *At the wheel, stuck in traffic* looks like we'll be stuck here for a while

Gaz: *Groans* Again? This is the 3rd time today we've been stuck in bloody traffic

Oswald: Get used to it. Hawai'i is full of it

Soap: Turn on the radio, Bonnie. I need something to keep my brain stimulated or it'll die in boredom

Oswald: Alright, alright *Turns radio to 98.5*

*Station starts playing "Ehu Girl" by Kolohei Kai*

Oswald: Oh! This is a good one

Soap: Well this is definitely different from ye typical widespread songs

Oswald: *Gasps* You've never listened to Reggae???

Gaz: *Shakes head in disappointment* You're definitely missing out Soap. I don't listen to much Reggae, but it's still a good refresher from the usual day to day genres

Oswald: tsk tsk...Guess I'll just have to play more Hawaiian Reggae around you, Soap

Btw, here's some good Hawaiian Reggae recommendations bc why not?

• Ehu Girl- Kolohei Kai

• Cool down- Kolohei Kai

• This is the life- Kolohei Kai

• Heartstrings- Kolohei Kai

• Round and Around- Kolohei Kai

• Wade in your Water- Common Kings

• Lost in Paradise- Common Kings

• Take Her- Common Kings

• Mary Wanna- Common Kings

• No Other Love- Common Kings

• Waiting on the Rain- J Boog

• Police and Theives- J Boog

• Lets do it again- J Boog

• Every Little Thing- J Boog

• Higher than the Clouds- Anuhea

• Make me Say- Kimié

• More than a Fire- O-Shen

Soap: *Sneezes*

Oswald: *On coms, flying past Soap in a F15* Bless you

Soap: *Yelling back towards Oz* Thanks Bonnie!

Later:

Oswald: *Sneezes*

Soap: *Rolls past Oz in a tank* Bless you!

Oswald: Why, tank you

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Thanks @islandtarochips and @itsastronxmy for the tags 🤍

Anyways here's the closest iliteration of myself.

(And ofc I had to add the Hibiscus since it's my state flower lol)

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Rudy: *To Laswell* Yeah, it's been great. We've been working with them for a few months and I'd say they're pretty professional

Soap: *Screaming in background*

Alejandro: *Rushing to calm Soap down* I TOLD YOU NOT TO GET SPICY! YOUR WHITENESS CAN'T HANDLE IT!

Ghost: *Holding in tears* He didn't, I just slipped in some ghost peppers

Gaz: *Busts out laughing*

Rudy:

Rudy: Anyway, anymore questions?